About “For Miles”

“For Miles” is an acknowledgement of the wounds that life inflicts along our journey, but also a song of confident hope that all the wrongs will be made right one day at the end of time. (See Revelation 21:1-4.)

It is also an encouragement to follow the example of Jesus Christ to become vulnerable with each other because it is only then that love and healing is found.

The title has a double meaning. The Vheissu album liner notes explain that it alludes to life’s journey and milestones on the way but that it also means “For Miles Davis”, as in, the song is dedicated to him. Dustin explains:

I wrote the piano part in the back of a bouncy van on our tour with Poison the Well. I had been watching a DVD on Miles Davis and someone they were interviewing about the Bitches Brew sessions was talking about a scale that Miles had him play in. It was three major triads stacked on top of each other, and I thought it was very beautiful and haunting. I wrote the scale into Reason on my laptop, and then started messing around and wrote the piano part. In the end I thought it moved in a similar way to Beethoven’s “Für Elise,” but since I had taken the scale from the DVD, I named the file “Fur Miles” which became the working title. And now the final title is “For Miles” both as a reference to a journey, and a tribute to Mr. Davis.